Yu Ke dropped the tableware in his hand and jumped up suddenly.He couldn't stop shaking violently all over his body, so he had to lean against the wall. "I remember!" he exclaimed. Everyone looked at him, and the noisy speech during the lunch paused somewhat.However, their eyes were not eager, and the slovenly faces looking at him shone slightly under the light of the third-rate wall light, and were slightly pale.They didn't seem very interested. Any sudden shout would attract this kind of attention, just a reflex action. Yuke shouted again: "I remember my job, I used to have a job!"

Someone yelled: "Shut up!" Another yelled: "Sit down!" The faces of the people turned away, and the noisy conversation sounded again.Yu Ke stared blankly at the dining table, heard someone call him "crazy Yu Ke", and saw someone raise his hand, pointing at his temple and turning it around a few times.It was nothing to him, he just didn't see it, he didn't feel it. He sat down slowly and grabbed the utensils again.It was something like a spoon, with a sharp edge and a recessed tip with tiny tines for cutting meat, spooning soup, or forking food.Every function is equally clumsy, but a factory worker couldn't ask for more.He turned the cutlery around, staring at the number on the back of the handle in a daze, but ignored the number.He didn't need to look at his number, because he had already learned it by heart.The others, like him, had a registration number; but the others had names, and he did not.They called him "Yuke," which in the slang of the Jitiao processing factory meant imbecile and dull-witted.That's not enough, they often call him "crazy fool".

But maybe from now on, he will remember more and more of the past.Since coming to the processing plant, this was the first time he really thought about the past.As long as he tries hard to remember!As long as he thinks about it wholeheartedly! He suddenly felt no hunger, not at all.He jerked the cutlery forward, thrust it into the jelly made of meat and vegetables in front of him, and pushed the food aside.He pressed his eyes with the palms of his hands, inserted his fingers into his hair and pulled hard.With all his strength, he tried to follow his mind into a new realm—his mind once pulled out a memory from there, a chaotic and undecipherable memory.

Then he began to cry, just as the bell jingled, announcing the end of the lunch break. That evening, when he was about to leave the processing factory, Varona Marque came to him.At first he hardly noticed it, at least not that it was her, he just heard the echo of his footsteps.So he stopped and looked at her—her hair was blond and brown, pulled into two thick braids held together with small magnetic greenstone pins.Those pins were cheap and looked faded.She wore a simple cotton dress, which was adequate in this mild climate.Just as Yu Ke himself needed, just a light sleeveless shirt and a pair of loose cotton trousers.

"I heard there was a little problem at lunch," Varona said. She speaks with a rough accent, which is normal, everyone does.Yu Ke's language is full of unretracted vowels and a little nasal, so people laugh at him and imitate his way of speaking.But Varona would always tell him that it just represented the ignorance of those people. Yu Ke muttered, "No problem, Lorna." But she continued to ask: "I heard that you said you remembered something. Isn't that right, Yuke?" She called him Yuke too, but nothing else appropriate because he couldn't remember his real name.He had tried desperately to remember, and Varona had joined him in the effort.Once she managed to find a battered city directory and read all the names to him, and every one of them was equally unfamiliar to him.

He looked directly into her face: "I have to quit my job in the processing plant." Varona frowned, and her flat face with protruding cheekbones showed a embarrassed expression: "I don't think you can do that, it's wrong." "I must do my best to find out who I am." Varona pursed her lips: "I don't think you should do that." Yu Ke turned around, he knew her concern was sincere.At the beginning, it was Varona who helped him find the job in the processing factory.In fact he had no experience with the machines in the processing plant, or maybe he had.Just can't remember.Anyway, Varona insisted at the time that he was too small for manual labor, so they agreed to provide technical training for free.And before that, during those nightmarish days when he could hardly make a sound and didn't know what food was, she had been taking care of him and feeding him; she had kept him alive.

He said, "I must." "Did you have another headache, Yu Ke?" "No, I do remember one thing. I remember what my old job was—the old job!" Not sure he wanted to tell her, he looked away.The warm sun was at least two hours above the horizon.There are rows of monotonous workshops inside and outside the processing plant, which is boring to see.But you know, as long as you climb to the top of the slope, a large field will appear in front of you, and you will have a panoramic view of the beautiful colors of bright red and golden. He likes to look at the fields.From the first the sight had comforted and delighted him.Even before he knew that those colors were bright red and gold, before he knew there was such a thing as color, before he could only make a guttural sound of joy, his headaches got better faster whenever he was out in the fields.In those days, Varona would always borrow an anti-magnetic scooter and take him out of town on the days off from work.They would fly a foot above the pavement, gliding on the smooth pad of the anti-gravity field, and finally came to a place where no one was seen, surrounded only by the breeze on their cheeks and the scent of thistles.

They would sit by the roadside in the bright sunshine, bathed in color and scent, and share a piece of jelly until they had to go back. These memories touched Yu Ke, and he said, "Let's go to the fields, Lorna." "It's getting late." "Please, just get out of town." She fumbled with the thin purse she kept close to her body.The purse was tucked around her waist in a soft blue belt, her only luxury. Yu Ke grabbed her arm: "Let's go." After half an hour, they left the road and walked down a winding, dust-free path made of gravel.An inescapable, dignified silence filled the two of them, and Varona felt seized by a familiar terror.She didn't know how to express her feelings for him, so she never tried.

What if he leaves her?He was a small man, in fact, not much taller than she was, and he weighed less than she did.He was still a helpless kid in many ways, but he must have been an educated man, a very important intellectual, before they closed his mind. As for Varona herself, she had no education beyond reading and writing, and vocational school training that enabled her to operate factory machinery.But she has enough knowledge to know that not all people are like that.The mayor is an obvious example, his extensive knowledge is of great help to everyone.And the occasional tycoons who came to visit. She never saw them close, but once when she went to the city on a holiday, she saw a group of people dressed in gorgeous clothes from a distance.In some cases, factory workers were allowed to hear what educated people had to say.The way they speak is different, expressing more fluently, with richer vocabulary and softer tones.As Yu Ke gradually recovered his memory, his way of speaking became more and more like that.

I remember that when he said the first sentence, she was really shocked.At that time, he was sobbing for a long time because of his headache, and suddenly blurted out.His pronunciation was weird, and she tried to correct him, but he couldn't. Even then, she was already worried that he would remember too much and leave her.She's just Varona March, and everyone calls her Big Lona.She never married and never will.A girl as big as she was, with big feet and hands red with hard work, would never marry.Every weekend dinner, when men ignored her, she would silently stare at them with hatred, and that was the only thing she could do.She was too big to give them a sweet smile or a wink.

She would never have a baby of her own to cuddle and cuddle with.As the other girls became mothers one by one, she could only stand aside and watch the babies in their arms.The babies are all ruddy and hairless, with a pair of closed eyes, two lying hands, and a toothless mouth... "It's your turn next time, Lorna." "When will you have a baby, Lorna?" She could only turn her face away. But Yu Ke appeared like a baby.She had to feed him, take care of his life, and take him out in the sun.She also had to try to lull him to sleep when the headaches tormented him. The kids would always run after her, laughing and shouting, "Lorna's got a boyfriend. Big Lorna has a crazy boyfriend. Lorna's boyfriend is stupid." Later, when Yu could walk on his own (the day he took his first steps, she was so proud, as if he was really only a year old), he went out alone on the streets of the town, and the children immediately put him on the street. Surrounded, giggling at him, loudly sneering, just to see a grown-up covering his eyes in fear, cowering, and responding to them only with sobs.Dozens of times she burst out of the house, yelling at them and shaking her huge fists. Even grown men are afraid of those fists.On the first day she took Yuke to work in the processing factory, she just heard the vulgar comments made by the foreman behind the two of them. She turned around and punched the foreman to the ground.The Mills Council fined her a week's wages for it, and if the mayor hadn't interceded for her by pointing out that she had been provoked, they might have sent her to town for further trial in the tycoon's court. How she wished Yu Ke would stop remembering.She knows that she can't give him anything, and she knows that it is really a selfish idea to keep him in this state of helplessness with a blank heart forever; but no one has ever relied on her so 100%, and she is afraid of living that lonely and lonely life again . "Are you sure you remember, Yuke?" she asked. "yes." They stopped in the fields, the sun dyed everything around them fiery red, the soft, fragrant evening wind was about to blow, and the checkerboard-like irrigation channels had begun to turn purple. He said, "I can trust my memories when they come back. You know I can, Lorna. You didn't teach me to speak, for example. I remembered the words myself. Right?" She reluctantly replied, "Yes." "I remember even those times when you took me out into the fields before I could speak. I keep remembering new things, and yesterday I remembered that you once caught me a thistle fly. You used two hands Cover it up so I can put my eyes between your thumbs so I can see it glow purple and orange in the dark. I laugh and try to snatch it out of your hand, and I get It flew away and made me cry. I didn't know it was a thistle fly or anything about it then, but it's clear now. You never told me about it, yes Isn't that right, Lorna?" She nodded. "But it happened, didn't it? My memory is real, right?" "Yes, stupid." "And now, I remember something from my past. There must have been a past, Lorna." There must have been a past.Whenever she thought of this, her heart felt heavy.It was a different past, completely different from their present life.It was in another world, which she understood, because he still couldn't remember the name Ji Xing.She had to teach him the name, which represented the most important thing in the world of Florence. "What exactly do you remember?" she asked. Faced with this question, Yu Ke's excitement seemed to disappear suddenly.He hesitated, "I don't know, Lorna. Just remembered I had a job, and I know what it was. At least, in a way." "What kind of work?" "I analyze 'empty game'." She turned her head suddenly, stared into his eyes, and pressed her palm to his forehead for a while, until he turned his head away in displeasure. "Have you got a headache again, Yuke? Haven't you? You haven't had a headache in weeks." "I'm fine, don't bother me." Seeing her drooping eyelids, he hastened to say, "I don't mean you to bother me, Lorna. It's just that I feel good and I don't want you to worry about me." Immediately she perked up. "What do you mean 'analysis'?" He knew words she didn't, and she was humbled to think of what a learned man he had been. He thought for a moment. "Which means...means 'take it apart.' You know, like we'd take a sorter apart to find out why the scanning beam wasn't aligned." "Oh. But Yuke, doesn't 'one game' mean nothing? So what's there to analyze? It's not a job at all." "I didn't say I didn't analyze anything, I said I analyzed 'nothing'." "Isn't that the same?" Started, she thought.She starts talking stupid things, and soon he can't take it anymore and dumps her. "No, of course not." He took a deep breath, "but I'm afraid I can't explain it myself, that's all I remember. But it must have been an important job, and it felt that way. I used to Can't be a criminal." Varona felt guilty, she really shouldn't have told him that.She used to comfort herself, warning him that the purpose was to protect him; but now she felt that the real intention of what she did before was to tie him even tighter. That's when he first started talking.She was so taken aback by the suddenness of the change that she dared not even tell the mayor about it.On the next day off from work, she took five credits from her life savings (you don’t need to keep them as a dowry anyway, because no man will ever marry her), and took Yuke to see a doctor in the city.She was holding a piece of paper with the doctor's name and address on it.But even so, she still searched for two hours with trepidation before finding the building between the giant pillars supporting the upper city. She insisted on staying with Yuke, but she saw the doctor doing all kinds of horrible things with many strange instruments.Yu Ke's head was placed between two pieces of metal, shining like a thistle fly at night, she looked anxiously, and jumped up quickly to try to stop it.As a result, the doctor called two people, and it took a lot of effort to drag her out. The doctor came out half an hour later, facing her tall and frowning.She felt uneasy in his presence because he was a tycoon, even though his clinic was downtown.But his eyes were quite gentle, even kind.He wiped his hands with a small towel, and then threw it in the trash, although it was still clean in her eyes. "Where did you meet this man?" he said. She carefully told him what had happened, only revealing the most basic outline, and did not mention the mayor and the patrolman at all. "So you don't know anything about him?" She shook her head: "I don't know anything about it before." He added: "This man has been psychically altered. Do you know what that is?" At first she shook her head again, but then said in a low voice, stiffly: "The kind you do to a madman, doctor?" "And criminals. Rehabilitation is for their good, so that it restores their health, or changes the parts that make them want to steal, to kill. Do you understand?" She understood. "Yu Ke has never stolen anything, or hurt anyone." She blushed and said to the doctor. "You call him Yu Ke?" He seemed to find it very interesting. "Listen, how do you know what he did before you met him? From the current state of his mind, it is difficult for us to know. The remodeling was thorough and brutal. I dare not say how much of his sanity was completely wiped out and how much was temporarily lost due to shock. I mean, some parts will come back after a while , like his language skills, but not all. Anyway he should be placed under surveillance." "No, no, he must be with me. I've been taking good care of him, Doctor." He frowned, and then his voice became more gentle: "Well, I am thinking of you, Miss. Not all bad intentions can be removed, you don't want him to hurt you someday, do you?" At this time, a nurse brought Yuke out.She also made some noises to coax him to shut up, like a baby.Yu Ke put one hand on his head and stared blankly at the front until his eyes focused on Varona, then stretched out his hands and shouted weakly: "Lorna—" Varona rushed towards Yu Ke, put his head on her shoulder, and hugged him tightly.She said to the doctor, "No matter what, he will never hurt me." The doctor said earnestly: "Of course, but his medical records must be reported. I think he must have been under the supervision of the relevant authorities. Judging from his current physical condition, I really don't know how he escaped in the first place." "Does that mean they're going to take him away, doctor?" "I'm afraid so." "Please, doctor, don't do that." She untied her handkerchief, revealing five shiny alloy credits. "You can take them all, doctor. I will take good care of him, and he won't hurt anyone." The doctor looked at the credit coins sent to him: "You are a factory worker, aren't you?" She nodded. "How much do they pay you a week?" "Two point eight credits." He tossed the coins lightly, and caught them again with a crisp jingle.Then, he handed the coin to her: "Take it, miss, I don't charge money." She accepted it in surprise: "You won't tell anyone, doctor?" Unexpectedly, he replied: "I'm afraid there is no way, this is the law." On the way back, she desperately clung to Yu Ke, and went on a rampage with a heavy heart. A week later, there was a news on the Supervision news screen that a doctor died in a gyroplane crash when a local transportation power beam temporarily failed.She felt that the name of the deceased was familiar, and when she got home that night, she took out the piece of paper, only to find that it was the same name. She was sad because he was a good man.A colleague had mentioned this name to her a long time ago, saying that he was a tycoon doctor who was very kind to factory workers.So she put the paper away in case she could ask him for help in an emergency.And when the emergency happened, he did treat her well.But her joy overwhelmed her sorrow, and she thought it might be too late for him to tell Yu Ke.At least, no one has ever come to the village to investigate. Later, when Yuke's comprehension recovered a lot, she told him what the doctor said, so that he could stay in the town obediently and avoid being taken away. Yu Ke shook her body, pulling her back from meditation. "Didn't you hear me? If I had an important job, I couldn't be a criminal." "Isn't it impossible for you to do wrong things?" She said this with some hesitation, "Even if you were a big shot before, you could still make mistakes, even a tycoon..." "I'm sure I don't. But I have to find out the truth so others can be sure, don't you understand? There's no other way. I have to get out of the mill and the town and discover more of my past .” Her panic leveled up: "Foolish! That's too dangerous. Why would you do that? So what if you've analyzed 'a void' before? Why is it important to find out more?" "Because I remembered something else." "What's up?" He said softly, "I don't want to tell you." "You've got to tell someone, and you might forget again." He grabbed her arm: "That's right. You won't tell anyone, will you, Rona? In case I forget again, you are my backup memory." "Of course, stupid." Yu Ke looked around.This is a beautiful world. Varona once told him that there is a huge shining sign in the upper city, which is even several miles higher than the upper city. beautiful planet." As he looked around, he certainly believed it. "It's a horrible memory," he said, "but when my memory comes back, it always comes back right. This afternoon, it came up." "What's up?" He stared at her with a frightened expression on his face: "Everyone in this world will die, and everyone in Florenia will die."